Finnur Arnar

Finnur Arnar Finnur Arnar sýnir hér nokkur verk sem geta hvert og eitt staðið ein og lifað sínu lífi, en eiga þó í innilegu og nánu samtali. Viðfangsefni sín sækir …

National Heroes When the snow melts after a long and cold winter, heroes grow in the highest mountains. Photographs of flowers that grew in the West Fjords moorland, spring 2012.  

From, to and around Westfjords - Graphite on wall

Fisherman’s Widow, Fisherman Tvö myndbönd sem sýnd eru hlið við hlið sýna sama sjónarhorn og eru tekin upp samtímis. Á þeim er þó sá reginmunur að annað er tekið beint upp …

Tvö myndbönd sem sýnd eru hlið við hlið sýna sama sjónarhorn og eru tekin upp samtímis. Á þeim er þó sá reginmunur að annað er tekið beint upp í himininn af …

Seven photos of fish, taken with a Polaroid camera; the heads of the same seven fish in jars filled with formaldehyde; the invisible presence of their bodies locked in a …

The man in the work revolves slowly counterclockwise while the light travels from right to the left in twenty minutes.

Installation in a backyard

Installation in a gallery

From the beginning of his career Finnur Arnar Arnarson has been particularly drawn to generic circumstances where art is displayed in a volatile state, scarcely visible at the narrow margin …

Cloud and Shadow

A private exhibition.

Two video segments, ten minutes each, side by side where the same fishing village in The West fjords  is shown. The ocean is in the front and the village huddles in …

On the left a young girl is sleeping but on the right a recording from Látrabjarg taken from the height of 500 m straight down into the ocean.

A twin video made of two ten minute video segments side by side, showing the last twenty minutes in the life of a single, stranded cod. The spectator sees simultaneously the …

Two ten minute video segments side by side showing the death of a cod. The work shows twenty minutes in ten of the cod dying.

Icelandic viking. Installation, video and photographs

Icelandic vikings wrote down their wounds. The men are members of the viking society Rimmugýgur. Also exhibited at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.

Photograph of an old woman, five statues of the members of the punk group PPPönk. Members of the Ponkgroup and the old women wrote down there future dreems

On the Visa note you could read the national anthem of Iceland

The picture is of Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson how is the main spokesman of  capitalism in Iceland. The button shows the notes of The Internationale

A group exhibition in Reykjavík. Jón Sigurdsson is the undisputed hero of Iceland. His visions freed Iceland from the Danish crown that lead to the country’s independence in 1944. But …

An installation in an old prison in Reykjavík. The piece shows us the everyday of the prisoner in cell 4. “Finnur Arnar’s cell was not typical in comparison to the …

An installation in the Cultural Center of Grindavík. This installation tells a story about an electrician. He is just minding his job. On the ladder he has attached a note, stating: “Went …

Eight governmental salary slips (80cmx60cm) Five office workes CV’s Three “be back soon” works. Droped upstairs, droped by the exhibition, droped to fetch a lightbulb.

Family car My car and my family had been living together for a long time when I put it up for sale in a group show of young artists at …

  I did this installation with a friend of mine, the composer Thorkell Atlason. The pictures show a kitchen in an old defunct house. In one of them, a young …